READY FOR SEASON OPENER—Th« 1961 edition of the Hillsboro High School Wildcats, Dis
trict III champions for the past two years, posod for this official photograph after last Thursday
night's intra-squad game under the lights which was attended by over 700 local fans. The team
opens the regular season tomorrow night .when it entertains the Knights of Northern Durham
High School at Drange Speedway Stadium.
Vandalism to highway signs costs public
$100,000 annually in North Carolina
The sharp clang of a rock!
smashing into a metal sign—the
zing of a well-aimed bullet that
finds its mark-^-the would-be art
ist who has found that a 3 in 35
.can be changed very simply to
an 8. These are some of the prob
lems facing traffic engineers and
sign supervisors in what has been
termed an annual $100,000 dis
grace in North Carolina, accord
ing to Highway Department of
ficials.
R. A. Burch, State Traffic En
gineer estimates that each year
$100,000 is spent to replace road
side signs which have suffered
severe damage at the hands of
some unthinking youngster or
older person who regards high
way markers as nothing more
than an object for target prac
tice.
If such useless waste could be
eliminated the same amount of
money would hafdsurface more
than .five miles of secondary
roads each year, replace one or
more outmoded secondary road
bridges or construct about a
quarter of a mile of new four
laning.
Annually the various sign de
partments estimate they replace
about a quarter of a million high
way signs, 10% of- which’ have
been damaged beyond repair by
rocks, bullets ■ or bottles or by
bending, stealing, breaking- or
painting.
Outright theft of signs has al
so been a problem over the years
ever since some high school or
college student thought a high
way sign would look better on
the wall of his room than out on
the road. Happily, according to j
Burch and others, this expression!
of adolescence seems to be on
the wane but has by no means
disappeared. Sometimes theft of
signs can take on enormous pro
portions.
Not long ago field forces of
the Highway Department came
on what seemed to be a whole
truckload of highway signs in a
remote, wooded area near White
Lake. Carelessly thrown about
on the ground or tacked to near
by trees were roadside markers,
not only from North Carolina
but from Virginia and South
Carolina as well. The culprit or
culprits had a yen for travel and
collected trophies from points as
far away as a hundred miles and
toted them back to this secluded
“graveyard” where they might
be enjoyed at leisure.
Missing signs pose the most
serious problem for sign men
because it is easy to overlook a
spot where a sign should be and
for this reason the marker may
go unnoticed for days or even
weeks. Such thefts also create
hazards for drivers. The unsus
pecting motorist may run up on
a dangerous fcurve, bad grade or
dangerous -intersection with no
forewarning. Accidents with re
sultant property dttnage, person
al injury !*- even doath have
been Caused by SuCh lock Of ade
quate warnings.
Most common damage to Signs
comes from rocks, pop bottles
and bullets which dent Or pierce
the sign face. A pop bottle
thrown from it fast moving car
may have more than a 75 MPH
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impact against the face of a met
al or wooden sign. Broken glass
at the base or even on the road
way itself stands as mute evi
dence that a prankster has.tested
his aim and found it true at the
expense of the North Carolina
taxpayer. Chances are that his
accuracy cost $15.00 or more to
say nothing of replacing the
damaged marker.
North Carolina has long-stand
ing laws to the effect that any
person who willfully defaces,
damages or removes signs shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor but
Town Classes fall program is announced
Students from 14 cities and
towns across North Carolina, and
from five colleges have already
chosen Town Classes Secretarial
College in Chapel Hill and will
enter Fall Semester casses, which
begin Sept. 15.
Counselors are availabe daily
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to discuss
career selections and other guid
ance problems with prospective
students, and parents prior to
registration.
Robert M. Wells, College Vice
President, stated that recent an
nouncements concerning indus
trial expansion within the area
had resulted in an increased in
terest in secretarial, accounting
and allied business training.
Classes are scheduled from 8
a.m. to 1:15 p.m., five days per
week. A nine-month stenographic
and a 12-month secretarial pro
gram will be offered, leading to
the following positions: stenog
apprehension of the guilty party
is difficult and conviction even
rarer.
rapher, bookkeeper, secretary,
payroll clerks, dictaphone and
office machine operators. A few
vacancies exist in both programs.
Jaycettes to present
first fall fashion show
The Chapel Hill Jaycettes will
hold their first annual Fall Fash
ion Show at the Carolina Inn ball
room on Saturday, Sept. 16.
Seven Jaycettes will serve as
models during the fashion show
that begins at 2 p.m.
Tickets for the show are on
sale at J. B. Robbins Andrews
Henninger, Town and Campus,
Fireside, Belks, The Youth Cen
ter. and Junior Wardrobe. Tickets
may also be purchased from any
Jaycette and at th^ door the day
of .the show.
Hair-styles of all the models will
be done by La Marick Beauty
Salon. The children of the Jay
cettes will model in the fashion
show, and refreshments will be
served during the show.
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